President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday negated a rumour about his ill health and that he had died and been replaced by a lookalike impostor from Sudan, his spokesman said.
Buhari via a tweet on Sunday said that he addressed the reports while at a meeting in Poland.
‘One of the questions that came up today in my meeting with Nigerians in Poland was on the issue of whether I’ve been cloned or not,’ Buhari said.
‘The ignorant rumors are not surprising, when I was away on medical vacation last year a lot of people hoped I was dead.
‘It’s real me, I assure you. I will soon celebrate my 76th birthday and I will still go strong,’ Buhari said as he met with the Nigerian diaspora in Poland, where he is attending the UN COP24 climate summit in Katowice.
‘A lot of people hoped that I died during my ill health. Some even reached out to the Vice President to consider them to be his deputy because they assumed I was dead,’ Buhari said, according to a statement signed by his spokesman Garba Shehu.
Buhari, who is seeking to stand in next year’s election, spent a greater part of 2017 in London for treatment for a serious illness, which has never been withheld from the public.
